Indiana AG fights COVID-19 misinformation, points finger at government health agencies

Indiana Legal professional Normal Todd Rokita is preventing COVID-19 misinformation.

In a current memo, the Republican AG responded to a request from the Division of Well being and Human Providers’ Workplace of the Surgeon Normal to submit situations of COVID-19 misinformation. Rokita complied an inventory of what he known as “deceptive messages” unfold by authorities officers, together with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Ailments.

Rokita highlighted 9 particular situations of what he thought-about to be COVID-19 misinformation that the federal government unfold in the course of the pandemic.

They included claims akin to: Vaccines cease the unfold, pure immunity does not assist, faculty closures had been efficient and costless, there was no cheap coverage various to lockdowns, it’s attainable to eradicate COVID-19, masks mandates are efficient in lowering unfold, everyone seems to be equally liable to hospitalization and loss of life from COVID-19, mass testing of asymptomatic individuals and contract tracing is efficient in lowering unfold and the reported variety of COVID-19 deaths is correct.

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“The federal authorities should consider how misinformation from authorities companies in any respect ranges led to the adoption of utmost methods that got here at a excessive price to life and liberty,” Rokita wrote.

The Heart for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) has been criticized and mocked from all sides after a sequence of muddled messages have baffled Individuals amid a file surge in COVID-19 instances and the unfold of the omicron variant. (iStock)
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Rokita went on to accuse the federal government of being unable to offer an correct variety of deaths or hospitalizations on account of COVID-19, regardless of spending near $5 trillion on preventing the virus.

“For 2 years, the federal government pressured us to remain in our houses, cowl our faces, and preserve our youngsters residence from faculty,” Rokita mentioned. “We had been anticipated to blindly observe and obey these public well being orders and never query the knowledge of unelected officers. Households throughout Indiana and throughout the nation demand the reality.”  

Rokita known as President Biden’s masks and vaccine mandates “illegal.”

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Protestors against Covid-19 vaccine mandates and vaccine passports by the federal government rally at Metropolis Corridor in New York Metropolis on August 25, 2021.
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He known as on the federal government to be clear concerning the information used to make public well being selections and vowed to maintain preventing to show the info surrounding inaccurate information on the numbers of deaths and hospitalizations associated to COVID-19.

“We are able to’t enhance our response to a future pandemic with out an trustworthy and correct accounting of the variety of deaths and hospitalizations inflicted by COVID-19,” Rokita mentioned.

Rokita wrote the memo along with epidemiologists Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor at Stanford College Faculty of Drugs, and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Senior Analysis Fellow on the Brownstone Institute and former Professor at Harvard College Faculty of Drugs.